linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] e2fsck: fix ".." more gracefully if possible

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Date:   Tue, 6 Jul 2021 16:19:51 -0400
From:   "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Andreas Dilger <adilger@...mcloud.com>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        Artem Blagodarenko <artem.blagodarenko@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2fsck: fix ".." more gracefully if possible

On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 05:31:23PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> If the "." entry is corrupted, it will be reset in check_dot().
> It is possible that the ".." entry can be recovered from the
> directory block instead of also resetting it immediately.  If
> it appears that there is a valid ".." entry in the block, allow
> that to be used, and let check_dotdot() verify the dirent itself.
> 
> When resetting the "." and ".." entries, use EXT2_FT_DIR as the
> file type instead of EXT2_FT_UNKNOWN for the very common case of
> filesystems with the "filetype" feature, to avoid later problems
> that can be easily avoided.  This can't always be done, even if
> filesystems without "filetype" are totally obsolete, because many
> old test images do not have this feature enabled.
> 
> Fixup affected tests using the new "repair-test" script that
> updates the expect.[12] files from $test.[12].log for the given
> tests and re-runs the test to ensure it now passes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas dilger <adilger@...mcloud.com>
> Reviewed-by: Artem Blagodarenko <artem.blagodarenko@....com>
> Lustre-bug-Id: https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-14710
> Change-Id: Ia5e579bcf31a9d9ee260d5640de6dbdb60514823
> Reviewed-on: https://review.whamcloud.com/43858

Applied, thanks.

					- Ted